Kategoria BISAC: Architecture >> Design, Drafting, Drawing & Presentation

Ein Handbuch, dasdie Grundlagen des architektonischen Entwerfens nach einem neuartigen didaktischen Konzept vermittelt: Klassische Entwurfsstrategien und Gestaltungskonventionen werden hinterfragt, unddie einzelnen Arbeitsschritte werden durch beispielhafte studentische Projekte veranschaulicht.

This publication explores a very special kind of design-the phenomenon, as normal as it is wonderful, in which people with no formal training in design take things that have already been designed and reuse them, convert them to new uses.

Susannah Hagan boldly discusses the fraught relationship between key dominating areas of architectural discourse - digital design, environmental design, and avant-garde design.

Digitalia firstly demonstrates that drawing such firm lines between architectural spheres is damaging and foolish, particularly as both environmental and avant-garde practices are experimenting with the digital, and secondly remonstrates with an avant-garde that has repudiated the social/ethical agenda of the modernist avant-garde because it failed the first time round. It is environmental...

The Supercrit series revisits some of the most influential architectural projects of the recent past and examines their impact on the way we think and design today. Based on live studio debates between protagonists and critics, the books describe, explore and criticise these major projects.

This second book in the unprecedented series examines Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's infamous book which overturned the barriers separating high architecture from the commercial architecture of the Strip.

In Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown: Learning from Las...

The 1876 United States Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia was not only the United States' first important world's fair, it signaled significant changes in the very shape of knowledge. Quarrels between participants in the exhibition represented a greater conflict as the world transitioned between two different kinds of modernity--the Enlightenment of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries to the High Modern period of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. At the center of this movement was a shift in the perceived relationship between seeing and knowing and in the perception of what...

"The members of 7group and Bill Reed are examples writ large of the kind of leadership that is taking this idea of green building and forming it into reality, by helping change minds, building practice, and design process."
--from the Foreword by S. Rick Fedrizzi President, CEO, and Founding Chair, U.S. Green Building Council

A whole-building approach to sustainability

The integrative design process offers a new path to making better green building decisions and addressing complex issues that threaten living systems. In The Integrative Design Guide to Green Building:...

Ein Handbuch, dasdie Grundlagen des architektonischen Entwerfens nach einem neuartigen didaktischen Konzept vermittelt: Klassische Entwurfsstrategien und Gestaltungskonventionen werden hinterfragt, unddie einzelnen Arbeitsschritte werden durch beispielhafte studentische Projekte veranschaulicht.

Diese Publikation erforscht und analysiert eine ganz besondere Form von Design: Das ebenso normale wie wunderbare Phanomen, dass Menschen ohne Designanspruch bereits gestaltete Dinge umnutzen, anders nutzen, im besten Sinne missbrauchen.